Part III

Part III

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CHAPTER ONE – The culprits of the conflict

And who were they who chose this destiny for the Macedonian people in Greek occupied Macedonia during the Second World War and during the Greek the Civil War?

Suvogorski pulled out a book entitled “Facts about CPG Manipulations and Hypocrisies”.

The people responsible for the manipulations and hypocrisies were none other than Markos Vafiadis, President of the Interim Democratic Government of Greece, and Nikos Zahariadis, General Secretary of the CPG.

This means that we now know who the principle actors who planned our destiny in Greek occupied Macedonia during the Greek Civil War were … in other words we know who planned the silent genocide suffered by the Macedonian people.

And who for us Macedonians was Markos Vafiadis?

He was a tobacco worker, an Asia Minor colonist and a settler planted in Greek occupied Macedonia in the 1920s. The Greeks say he was a “Greek by birth” but in actual fact he was a Turk by birth who came to Macedonia in 1924. After the Greek Civil War, he returned to Greece. At Athens airport he was greeted as the Chief of Staff of the rebel armed forces of Greece who fought against the Greek government during the Greek Civil War, and was embraced with a hearty embrace. A journalist from the daily “Epikera” asked him a question about the meaning of the armed struggle to which Markos replied: “The idea was to drive the Slavo-Macedonians to the north and out of Greece so that Macedonia will remain Greek.” See “Nova Makedonija”, February 25, 1992. This is why Vafiadis fought in the Greek Civil War as a communist, and we sacrificed ourselves because we believed the Communists would resolve the “Macedonian Question” in our favour.

Why Paskal Mitrevski was appointed Minister in the interim democratic government. Tito agrees with Markos that Zahariadis’s policy change during the 5th Plenum to allow for an “independent

Macedonia” had aims at attracting more Macedonians to massively participate in the ranks of DAG. Zahariadis appointed Paskal Minister to move him away from being a military and political leader in the Macedonian organizations because it was alleged that Paskal was obedient to Tito and Yugoslavia, after Tito’s break with Stalin.